The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression

The regulation of the body provides an important concern in law, medical practice and culture. This volume contributes to existing research in the area by encouraging experts from a range of related disciplines to consider the legal, cultural and medical ways in which we regulate the body, further exploring how conceptions of self, liberalism, property and harm inform and influence contentious legal and ethical questions about what we can and cannot do to or with our own bodies.

About the Author

Dr Stephen W. Smith is Lecturer in Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. His research specialism is medico-legal issues at the end of life. He has published widely on this and related areas. Ronan Deazley is Professor of Law, Law School, University of Glasgow. His research interests focus primarily upon the history and theory of copyright law, the interface between legal regulation, photography and the dissemination of the image, and the nature and significance of the public domain and the intellectual commons. He has published numerous books and articles on this and related areas.